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FORWARD MOVEMENT BRINGS IN LARGE SUM FOR MISSION8, ED'JCATiON AND BENEV OLENCES. ASK FOR $27 030,000 MORE This Sum Needed to Complete Cam paign Quota by End of 1924— People A-c Called to Prayer. DR. l_ n. SCARBOROUGH Who Will Lead Southern Baptists in Raising $27.000 000 In 1924. t'p to December, 1923, Southern Baptists hail paid In on th< ir subscrip 11 or!:■ to their 73 Million Campaign the aum of $4N 172,806.72, it is announced by the Campaign headquarters in Nashville. Four years of the five-year period have now expired, leaving ap proximately $27,000,000 to be raised by December, 1924', if the original Campaign objective is to be reached In the hope of obtaining tills amount of money for the further advancement of all the general mi-slonary, educa tional and benevolent enterprises fos tercd by Southern Baptists, the Cam paign. Conservation Oonunisolon has Inaugurated an Intensive effort that it is expected will reach every state district association and local church In the territory of the Southern Bap tist Convention during tills year. Dr L H. Scarborough, who war general director of the original Cam paign organization. has been asked te return to the Nashville headquarters from Ids heme at Fort Worth for this closing year of the forward movement arid give his p.-rsoaal attention to th* direction,, of the special effort that will be. waged for collecting the full $75,P<>rt.OOO bv the time tho period foi the program expires in December next. Dr. Scarborough, through thf 8-i.-dsiat.ee of (he various state and as rociatiimal workers, will seek to en list every Baptist In the South in some definite share In this dosing year of the Campaign. Baptists Have Big Income While the goal that has leer, set for 1924 is considerably larger thar. any that has yet been attained bv Southern Baptists in a single year, Dr. O. F Bryan, budget and steward ship dir‘elor of tho Campaign, an nounces that Southern Baptists have an annual income of at least $1,500,000, 000, and he and the various state stew ardship (lireteoTS will continue their effort ia enlisting the local churches In tho matter of systematic nnd pro portionate giving, with a view to de veloping Southern Baptists to the point that they will give according to their means, and give regularly wpek by week. A tenth of the South ern Baptist income, if given to the denomination, would make available for'religions work each year the sum of uO.OOO. Each State Has Had 8hare Indicating the sources from which the money already collected on the Campaign has come, the following contributions by states are announced: Alabama, $2,206,071.06; Arkansas, $1. 661,304. i;i; District of Columbia. $233, 827.J11; Florida, $706,783.73; Oeorjfia. $4,389,440,02; Illinois, 8^64,416.95; Kentucky, $6,091,181.78; Louisiana $1.19.',,977.191 Maryland, $599,451.11: Mississippi $2,494,281.79; Missouri $2,020,075.46; New Mexico, $199,325. 22: North Carolina. $4.0SB.732.46; Oklahoma, $1,206,913.76; South Caro lim $1,002,527.60; Tennessee, $3,117. 15:1 2': Texas, $7,320,697,61; Virginia $5184,003:76; and specials from aU soim,.:. $l,G93.r,08.04. On the bas's of distribution agreeo ttpnn bv the various states tho follow' lng amounts have gone to the various eausos co-operating In the Campaign R,ate misslrms, $8,671,105.17; honif Wlealons, $7,225,921.01; foreign mis fines, $11,561,473.61; Christian educa tion. or 119 Baptist seminaries, train !|g schools, colleges and academies *13.1X8,3 85.87; 21 Baptist hospital! -776.29; 19 Baptist orphanages ‘--6t96.47; and ministerial relief $1 6s6.048.23. .After conferenee with the gener: I*’ s!nni*ry. educational end benevo ' 'lt rr,,|s,'s which are embraced In th "tnpalgn, Dr. Scarborough announce, hat raising of $27,000,000 in 1924 will <t only enahle all Southern Uaptlsl enterprises to meet all their ohliga •’ but to make large advances at uome and abroad an vail. ■' tbe Star’s Advertisements. It Uril'es Results. l ands Badly Washed—Personal Men tion of People Coming And Going. Special to The Star. Lot Li in ore was visited Thursday evening by a severe rain, wind, elec tric an dhnil storm, while did several 1thousand dollars worth of damage, lhe Lattimore Oil company and Mr. S. B. Cooper were the hardest hit. It vns the worst storm that ha ever vis •ted here. Messrs Will Crowder, Al fred Falls, two of our largest cotton farmers suffered heavy damage by hail and land being washed. Mr". L. c. Toms Misses Vrrtle 1 Bridges and Ruth Padgett left recent- | !y for Asheville to attend the summer | i school. Mr. Hush llarrill and Miss Edith Hnrrill arc atteijding the summer school at Boone. Mr. Bunyan llarrill is at the sum mer school at Wake Forest. Dwight Bridges and Guy Daves who graduated at Wake Forest this year have returned home. Mi'. Thomas Green is at home from Mara Hill college. Raymond and Gordon Washburn are at home from Buie;; Creek academy Raymond is a member of the baseball team, which won the state champion ship, of N. C. for prep schools. 1I»1 Bridges has returned home from Wake Forest college. Harley Bridges has returned from a business trip to Spartanburg, S. C. Austin Jones, George Blanton, John Ralburn and Carl Jones will leave today for Camp McClellan, Ala. to attend the fourth annual encamp ment of the C. II. T. C. for 30 days. Mr. Arthur Padgett and Earl Sto ver of Hickory, spent last Sunday LATTIMORK STORM ponllo with homefolks. Loftin Ciawley spent last Sunday visiting; in Carthagre, this late. Chief Yeoman Robert F. Greene of the naval hospital at Hampton Roads, Vn., is expected home on a visit in a few days. John F.skridgo, Forrest Crowder, J. T. Kanipe and (Reason Hamrick have each purchased a new Ford, Mr. Aubrey C,alt on and Miss Will orteo Colton spent Sunday at Chim ney Rock. YOUNG ROY ELECTROCUTED BY HICH-VOI.T VGH WIRE Gastonia Gazette. Robert Ford Childers, a youn.fr hoy of 18 years, was instantly killed Mon day morning; when the steam shovel that he was operating at High Shoals came in contact with a hi»rh voltage electric line of the Southern Power C om pnny. Childers, who was an i nipioyee of 'the P. R. Huffstetler Company, of j Gastonia, was engaged in grading: for la mill site in High Shoals. The ma | chine was being moved to Gastonia I to complete the grading on the Davis Lake near this city, and hud been' I moved some distance by the workmen. |Th;; boy was a fireman n'ftd Whs on top of the boom of the shovel, trying: to help with the lowering as the power wire was reached. The insulation of the wire was evidently bad. At any rate, the current ran through the steel framework and the voung mnn was killed. A crowd was present but were pow erless to render the least assistance for the youth who died at the first hock. The body was brought back to Gastonia for burial but up until this afternoon the funeral arrangements had not been made. Tongues Thnt Sting. Did you ever see a Portuguese innn of-war fish one of those beautiful creatures of the .sou that looks like aj| great soap bubble and shows nil the colors of the rainbow ? Yet the Tor tuques man-of-war fish is “tourhy” and if you come in contact with its loner tenancies, you will soon find that it can sting. '• That is the way it la with many people. They look pleasant; they are 1 bright and gay; and ns long as every- 1 thing goes their way, there is no trouble. Hut if you oppose them or do anyth;up that they do not like, they, too, are “touchy," and their tongues stim.-:. Are you that kind?—Selected. Anything that is based on the sound plan of the greatest good for the greatest number is bound to succeed. A mun with n cool head, n ruly ton gue and good henltli can look the world in the face and dare it to do its worst. If the ex-kaiser is planting a rose garden, ns reported, he will raise nothing hut thorns, if he gets what he deserves. ELECTRIC CURLING —IRONS — guaranteed Iron, special y priced for [uick selling at.. $1.00 < GRANULATED SUGAR Limit 10 lbs. to a customer. While 2,000 lbs lasts 7Qe 10 lbs. . b Materials CANTON‘ CREPE FLAT CREPE AND SATIN BACK CREPE 126 New Slimmer Frocks c?iif r*v §k#i£llslafllZl ■ SATURDAY AND MONDAY E have just received these wonderful values in women’s-dresses. This exceptional purchase was brought about by our enormous buying power. It was necessary f >r us to take the whole lot in order to offer you these wonderful values in Spring Dresses. We invite you to call and try them on. In that way you are best able to judge. Colin rs BLACK BROWN TAN NAVY GREY COPEN MEXICAN GREEN 16 to 38 Consider It! Doni Let This Chance V *~ V DON’T FAIL TO GET ONE OF THESE DRESSES—NOT ONE SHOULD BE IJ2FT BY MONDAY NIGHT To Save Money Pass! 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Boys’ Wash Suits One big table to select from, some trimmed in brown and blue, with white bodies, others self trimmed; tisei 3 to 9. $1.25 Unionalls For The Kiddies Made of durable material with low neck, strongly reinforc ed, double seams, just iho garment for every day wear, and at a spe cial price of. $1.39 "anatic Kill* Five In One Family Chicago, June 30.—Beaten to death mil their bodies carefully covered by iheets or blankets, Otto Eder, taxicab ■hauffeur, his wife, Frances, and their hreo sons. Roy, 11 years old, Harvey’, dx, and Jack, three, were found in heir home early today. There was no disorder in the house mid no attempt at robbery was ap parent. The police said they thought the Family had been killed by n half wit :ed relative or a boarder filled with a ust to slay. "It looks to hie like the work of a man simply filled with a lust to kill,” said Henry A. Wolf, chief of police of Elmhurst, the suburb in which the Ed ■rs had lived. The body of Fder nnd the two youngest boys were found in n bedroom* their heads smashed. Mrs. Eder, wiio was about to become n mother, lay in the dining room, nnd the body of the oldest boy had been tossed into a half filled bath tub. The tub then had been covered with a blanket. Two neighbors who investigated soon after midnight had he roine alarmed by protracted silence in the Eder home, said they had heard the relative of the Eders who is sought by the police call the eldest boy late yesterday afternoon. 1 fi CANDIDATES FOR PRESIDENT NOW BEFORE CONVENTION When the roll call of states was started Saturday sixteen candidates for the presidency had been nominat ed by the Democratic National Con vention. Among the nominees are five United States senators and the Gov ernors of six states. Here is the list in order of the candidates respective states. O. W. Underwood_Ala. J. T. Robinson__—.— Ark. William G. McAdoo_Calif. Ex-Sen. W. Saulsbury - Del. Samuel M. Ralston --Ind. Gov. J. M. Davis --— Kan. Gov. Albert C. Ritchie — _>-Md. Sen. W. N. Ferris-Mich. Gov. Chas. W. Bryan Gov. F. H. Bro.wn--— Gov. G. S. Silzer -- Gov. Alfred E. Smith-N. David Houston _N. Ex-Gov. James M. Cox-Ohio Sen. Carter Glass —-Va. John W. Davis_—.W. Va. 233 TONS OF COPPER COINS TO BE POURED IN SMELTER Too many people believe which they want to believe. Take imitations. Demand the genuine in 10c and 35c peck age* bearing above trade tnark. After circulating, many of them for more than a century, in the Dutch East Indies, 283 tons of copper coins were unloaded in New York recently on their way to a smelting plant in New Jersey. Many bore the date of 1790; others were worn so smooth that their age could not be determined. These symbols' of the trade of a cor ner of the world that readers of Eng lish associate chiefly with the novels of Joseph Conrad soon will be trans muted into just copper, practically pure copper, however, worth about $250 a ton. The coins were collected by Dutch government ten years ago when the old issues were recalled “~J placed with new. —IF— The Boll Weevil don’t get you —Looks like the HAIL will. Several hail storms this week. Some farmers damaged twice this week. Some had hail in surance, some did hot. Many insuring this week. The hail stortn Tuesday af leaving nothing but the stalk standing. Farmers the cost to carry hail insur ance is small. You cannot af fofd not to insure. This is a hail storm year, looks like. Protect your crops with our hail policy and be on the safe side. See us at once—tomor row may be too late. J. L. Suttle, Mgr. Ins. Dept. Cleveland Bank & Trust Co. Shelby, N. C.
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